Truth or Lies?

Truth or Lies?


No author who writes nonfiction would in their right mind begin a paper with the following lines: “I remember hearing once there are three degrees of truth. There’s the ‘truth’, the ‘whole truth’, and ‘nothing but the truth.’ This piece will fall somewhere between ‘truth’ and ‘the whole truth’.” Similarly, would anyone ever take the stand in a court of law and swear to only tell “something in between the ‘truth’ and the ‘whole truth’’? These statements would completely undermine anything these individuals were trying to communicate to their audience. These audiences would begin to think that they were receiving a work of fiction instead of cold, hard, fact. Each of these individuals would loose all creditability because their audience would think that they were being ‘untruthful’.
In spite of the obvious sense this makes, almost all authors or witnesses in a court of law could have begun their recounting of fac...